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June 11, 2025
Note: This press release has been updated to reflect the fact that the budget has now been approved by the full House.
LANSING – The fiscal year 2026 school aid budget approved by the State House falls short in its support of school children, State Superintendent Michael F. Rice said.
“We must do better for our school children than this duct-taped budget that would remove guaranteed and targeted funding for improving early literacy, addressing the teacher shortage, and supporting students who have the greatest needs," Dr. Rice said. "While I support increasing per-pupil funding and reducing to a significant degree the number of categorical grants to give school districts more flexibility in how to spend state dollars, this budget unnecessarily puts at risk statewide education priorities.”
The budget lumps funds into large block grants that would diminish the statewide efforts to support, protect, and help educate children and at the same time address the state’s shortage of certified and highly trained teachers. Under this budget, there is no funding dedicated specifically to further early literacy improvements, address the teacher shortage, expand school safety and children’s mental health services, provide for general education transportation reimbursements for rural districts with greater busing costs, support English learners, help defray the costs of school infrastructure in many communities, fund let alone expand career and technical education, and help explore and implement efforts at consolidation. There is no dedicated state support of school meals.
“This budget spends money from the state education rainy day fund without a downturn in the economy,” Dr. Rice said. “It siphons money meant for pre-K-12 students into higher education. It reverses a decline in the retirement contribution rate that the legislature passed several months ago to provide meaningful budgetary relief to public schools and public school students.
“I look forward to working with our legislative partners and governor on a fiscal year 2026 budget that will build upon the successes in recent budgets that have helped improve to state record levels high school graduation rates and postsecondary credential attainment rates, as well as career and technical education completers, Advanced Placement (AP) participation on AP tests and AP success, early middle college enrollment, and dual enrollment and that will help us continue to address the teacher shortage, reading, math, and children’s mental health in the state.”
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